It will link directly to the Millennium Line, with connections to the Expo Line, Canada Line, the West Coast Express and regional bus networks.

The B.C. government is contributing $583-million and will also oversee construction of the project.

The federal government will provide up to $417-million.

TransLink will contribute $400-million and operate the line when it is complete.

Construction of the Evergreen Line is expected to create 8,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Major construction will begin in the late fall once the contract is signed and is slated to open for service in the summer of 2016.

SNC-Lavalin has experience building B.C.’s transit network after heading up construction of the Canada Line rapid transit system that links downtown Vancouver with Vancouver International Airport in Richmond.

It has a 33.3 per cent equity participation in InTransit BC, which will operate and maintain the Canada Line under a 35-year concession agreement.

Spokeswoman Leslie Quinton said SNC is proud to have won this mandate, which is “a natural extension” of its earlier successes in the province.

“We are grateful to our client for their confidence and the opportunity to serve them again, and we are committed to delivering to them and their customers a first class transportation experience,” she said in an email.

The SNC partnership bid against two other joint ventures—A. EL Partners, which includes Bombardier Transportation,and Genivar and Kiewit/Flatiron Evergreen Line.

The engineering and construction giant’s new CEO Robert Card started on the job this week amid reports that about $22.5-million of the $56-million in questionable payments to undisclosed foreign agents was used to win the Montreal super hospital project.

Former CEO Pierre Duhaime stepped down in March amid the controversy over the payments, which breached the company’s code of ethics.

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